Seeing the world through yogurt-covered glasses
I’m so sick of hearing about your damn no-gluten diet |
May 11th, 2012
Generally, I’m a really easy going guy, with an amazing patience for cultural, spiritual, and personal relativity. I grew up in a multicultural family and internalized the belief that different peoples, and even different people in the same family, can live happily with different beliefs.
Despite this,...
Jim Morrison
This entry is part 12 of 19 in the series April in Paris Trying to take a picture of Jim Morrison’s grave is a daunting task at best. How many images of this iconic crypt do you have to compete with? How...Père Lachaise
This entry is part 9 of 19 in the series April in Paris We spent a day walking around Père Lachaise and I took a LOT of pictures there. This is one of my better attempts at “Something focused in the...La Tour Saint Jacques
This entry is part 10 of 19 in the series April in ParisAfter our first week in Paris, we began to navigate by what became affectionately known as “The Tower.” “No, it’s down this way,...Shiny Happy Manhole Covers
This entry is part 7 of 19 in the series April in Paris This image has no artistic value, but I had to shoot it. Seriously, is this on purpose? All over Paris, you see manhole covers with faces on them....Pan
This entry is part 8 of 19 in the series April in Paris I love this statue of Pan in Le Jardin du Luxembourg. It’s would be a decent shot if I’d realized that the patina of copper blends remarkably...Jardin du Luxembourg
This entry is part 5 of 19 in the series April in Paris How do you take a picture of a statue? This is a question I can’t answer. My suspicion is that I wanted to be below it a bit to show the scale, but...Vaccinations (did you say “Pol...
Here’s the question I had: Should I get my children vaccinated? As a person who now fits squarely into the “expecting father” category, I’m already starting to freak out about the...Jardin de la Roseraïe
This entry is part 6 of 19 in the series April in Paris An attempt at trying to capture a sign close-up, while having the details of what that sign represents in the background, but out of the focal plane. Not...Pour la Science
This entry is part 3 of 19 in the series April in Paris I was playing a lot with close-ups of things, and aperture. I’ve got dozens of these. As individual artistic images, they’re not actually...l’Orangerie
This entry is part 4 of 19 in the series April in ParisOne day, we went to the Musée de l’Orangerie, the small art gallery that was specially built to house a series of 8 of Monet’s “Water...
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I’m John Metta, writer, hydrologist, programmer, Irish flute and banjo player, cyclist, brewer, and a digger of all things tech, and all around friendly guy. Nestled snugly in the Columbia River Gorge in a town called Hood River, I survey the world as my own personal playground. Circle me on Google+